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Questions for Reflection & Discernment and Processing 2025
Looking Toward 2026 Less is more. That’s the thing. That’s my main take-away from 2025. Every year, Emily P. Freeman (podcaster and author) puts out “10 Questions for Reflection & Discernment,” and I love to answer these questions each year as a reflection of my previous year and the beginning of a new year. What…
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Low Buy Year
I have been working on consistency in budgeting and keeping up with logging our expenses, and I’m seeing more and more how much I frivolously spend. My goal was to start by being aware, and my next step is to make changes. I ended up on the “no buy year” and frugal living side of…
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Beyond Thankful
This morning, through the Lectio 365 app, we read the story (Luke 7:36-50) about the woman who was so humbled and grateful to be with Jesus that she wet his feet with her tears and poured an alabaster jar of oil/perfume on his feet. The Pharisees were like… if you knew who this woman was…
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Peace in the Chaos
I have felt too overwhelmed to put thoughts into words. I have felt like my words wouldn’t matter or even make sense. I have been too overloaded mentally to process through the chatter in my head. I am finally feeling some mental and emotional space, so I thought I would give it a shot. I…
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Life is Bittersweet
From “The View Between Villages” by Noah Kahan “Passed Alger Brook Road, I’m over the bridgeA minute from home but I feel so far from itThe death of my dog, the stretch of my skinIt’s all washin’ over me, I’m angry againThe things that I lost here, the people I knewThey got me surrounded for…
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We Are Not in Control
As moms, from the moment we find out we are pregnant, we want to protect our babies. We want them to thrive. We have dreams of who they will become as older kids, teenagers, and adults. We have an idea in our minds of how that will look from the moment they are born. We…
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9 Years Sober and My Beautiful Life
Today I’m celebrating 9 years (3287 days) of sobriety. I am in the same place that I was 9 years ago when I decided to take myself to rehab (my parents’ house). Robert was out of town, and the kids and I were visiting my parents. I got drunk the night before (the 11th) as…
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Sacred Unraveling
SACRED. Holy. Set apart. Divine. UNRAVELING. Threads loosening. Coming undone. Letting go. Surrender. Through the mess of unraveling, I have developed a deeper relationship with the person of Christ. He has been right there with me as I have been learning who I am and slowly lowering the mask that I have been wearing my…
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One day, things will settle down… right?
Things have felt like they were falling apart the past week or so. I can’t really go into details, but I thought things were so much better with one of my kids, and I found out that that was further from the truth. Things have been very very hard. Ethan is probably going to do…
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Beauty, Division, and Unity
Life is weird. I am simultaneously in the best season of my life, AND I’m also wrestling with a lot of deep stuff. My anxiety and depression are managed at the moment. I have days in which I have some anxiety, but it’s no longer the 24/7 hell that I lived through for so many…
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